Tbf, there is a small gorup of DIY bio-hackers somewhere out there. I saw a doc about it a few years ago. Nothing like super major but like installing an NFC chip in a hand and stuff.
Not an electrician but I have one of these. While I have used it to troubleshoot electrical problems on occasion (eg- this thing doesn’t have a power LED but I can tell it’s getting power), it’s far more useful for locating and holding small screws. The field sensing bit is somewhat hit and miss. Mine works on microwave ovens, most transformers, some models of anti-theft gate, an electric tram once or twice, and on one occasion, a laptop WiFi card.
That’s so accurate, but landlords have jacked up rent so cities are little luxury zones for the rich only so only they can enjoy the few cool things about cyberpunk while I’m stuck living like a medieval peasant in bumfuck nowhere Ohio.
First I don’t wish Ohio on anyone, even my worst enemies.
That still tracks. Us poors can’t even afford the disassociation treats that the movies and books suggested that the cyber-poors would be enjoying. I just wanna be the homeless guy with the beanis-pump gooning himself with VR in the first episode of Edgerunners. Is that too much to ask?
The pumps have little screens on the that play adds and yell at you. They used to just use speakers to play the adds to the whole complex, but now they’re right in your face. There’s lots of surveillance, too, since they want to be able to prosecute you if you somehow manage to get gas without paying. It makes sabotaging the screens complicated.
I got it billboards that have an RFID and zap ads to your cars display and crank the volume. Also a future version that ques to play on your retina when you’re done driving for people with a neural ink chip installed. That or que ads in your dreams
Also from what I’ve seen online some of the gas pumps have switched from conventional speakers to DML panel speakers so you can’t destroy the speaker cones.
We need a commercial point of sale sabotage manual. Like we need to comb through the repair manuals for all these things, all these advertising machines, and determine how they can be disabled quickly, quietly, and with minimal evidence by the “end user”.
That’s one of the reasons some advertising and ATMs have switched to panel speakers, there’s no requirement for vent holes for the sound to escape, so it’s pretty much impossible to vandalise. A physical part of the gas pump or ATM becomes the speaker, by being energised by an audio exciter stcuk to the back side of it. If you see something producing sound with no obvious speaker holes, it’s probably using a DML exciter. It’s actually a very interesting technology, a shame it’s being used in advertising.
That could make it louder. I’ve built my own set of DML panel speakers, and coating the outside of the panels in a coat of PVA glue enhanced the high frequency sound. If there’s good connection between the epoxy and the surface, and the exciter is powerful enough to energize it with the extra mass of the epoxy, it will still work. Some people even coat their panels in expoy to try enhance the sound in a similar manner to coating in PVA glue. You would have to get the epoxy jammed in on the side with the exciter, which is usually not accessible.
yeah, I genuinely thought about trying to figure out where the essential components of those were so I could pop a little hole in them with a drill but I decided to stop driving for like a year instead
If you put your ear next to the panel you can probably find the location of the exciter on the panel, as the noise will get louder closer to the exciter, and then drill though the panel and exciter.
the only unfortunate thing is that essentially all gas stations have cameras
but honestly they aren’t monitored well at night so maybe you can get away with it if you’re casual enough. or black out your plates. Hardly seems worth the risk but those things make me homicidal so
You Americans have this? Good Lord
We are basically a cyberpunk dystopia without all the pizzazz at this point.
Wheres my damn cyberware? Oh neuralink? Fuck no
Tbf, there is a small gorup of DIY bio-hackers somewhere out there. I saw a doc about it a few years ago. Nothing like super major but like installing an NFC chip in a hand and stuff.
My favorite was a little magnet in your ring fingertip that let you “feel” magnetic fields.
I wouldn’t do it, but it sounded kinda nifty.
That would be hell if you were a secretary or whatever and used paperclips a lot.
Probably useful for an electrician tho
Not an electrician but I have one of these. While I have used it to troubleshoot electrical problems on occasion (eg- this thing doesn’t have a power LED but I can tell it’s getting power), it’s far more useful for locating and holding small screws. The field sensing bit is somewhat hit and miss. Mine works on microwave ovens, most transformers, some models of anti-theft gate, an electric tram once or twice, and on one occasion, a laptop WiFi card.
Cool, can we turn this into an ama? Like I’m genuinely curious about some stuff!
That’s so accurate, but landlords have jacked up rent so cities are little luxury zones for the rich only so only they can enjoy the few cool things about cyberpunk while I’m stuck living like a medieval peasant in bumfuck nowhere Ohio.
First I don’t wish Ohio on anyone, even my worst enemies.
That still tracks. Us poors can’t even afford the disassociation treats that the movies and books suggested that the cyber-poors would be enjoying. I just wanna be the homeless guy with the beanis-pump gooning himself with VR in the first episode of Edgerunners. Is that too much to ask?
lol so good.
The pumps have little screens on the that play adds and yell at you. They used to just use speakers to play the adds to the whole complex, but now they’re right in your face. There’s lots of surveillance, too, since they want to be able to prosecute you if you somehow manage to get gas without paying. It makes sabotaging the screens complicated.
That truly sounds annoying. So what next? Ads on the screen of your cars while stuck in traffic?
If you count the billboards on the side of the road, then yes.
Thats not bazinga brained or invasive enough
I got it billboards that have an RFID and zap ads to your cars display and crank the volume. Also a future version that ques to play on your retina when you’re done driving for people with a neural ink chip installed. That or que ads in your dreams
If I start getting sleep ads I will not sleep until I find the CEO fuckface who invented this and give em the Trotsky treatment
I’m sure someone has a patent for it. Drink verification can to put car in gear.
There’s cars driving around with small LED billboards bolted to the top
It’s called FM radio
We already have stupid little startup animations on car dashboards in lieu of useful information appearing at first like the odometer
Also from what I’ve seen online some of the gas pumps have switched from conventional speakers to DML panel speakers so you can’t destroy the speaker cones.
We need a commercial point of sale sabotage manual. Like we need to comb through the repair manuals for all these things, all these advertising machines, and determine how they can be disabled quickly, quietly, and with minimal evidence by the “end user”.
That’s one of the reasons some advertising and ATMs have switched to panel speakers, there’s no requirement for vent holes for the sound to escape, so it’s pretty much impossible to vandalise. A physical part of the gas pump or ATM becomes the speaker, by being energised by an audio exciter stcuk to the back side of it. If you see something producing sound with no obvious speaker holes, it’s probably using a DML exciter. It’s actually a very interesting technology, a shame it’s being used in advertising.
Surely slathering the surface with two-part epoxy would stop it from making noise?
That could make it louder. I’ve built my own set of DML panel speakers, and coating the outside of the panels in a coat of PVA glue enhanced the high frequency sound. If there’s good connection between the epoxy and the surface, and the exciter is powerful enough to energize it with the extra mass of the epoxy, it will still work. Some people even coat their panels in expoy to try enhance the sound in a similar manner to coating in PVA glue. You would have to get the epoxy jammed in on the side with the exciter, which is usually not accessible.
Fascinating. Truly unfortunate that this tech is being used for evil.
Exactly where my head went, but with expanding spray foam to get in and out quickly. Don’t know if that would even defeat these panels though.
it would probably fuck up the resonance and bring the level down at least
yeah, I genuinely thought about trying to figure out where the essential components of those were so I could pop a little hole in them with a drill but I decided to stop driving for like a year instead
If you put your ear next to the panel you can probably find the location of the exciter on the panel, as the noise will get louder closer to the exciter, and then drill though the panel and exciter.
the only unfortunate thing is that essentially all gas stations have cameras
but honestly they aren’t monitored well at night so maybe you can get away with it if you’re casual enough. or black out your plates. Hardly seems worth the risk but those things make me homicidal so
Putting a strong magnet next to the location of the exciter will screw it up without any physical damage from the outside.
I was wondering about that. Like would a fishing magnet be strong enough? Those are pretty strong and easily concealed.
And some places around me put mute stickers on the things, but they were forced to take it off by corporate!
There is nowhere you can go in this country without somebody trying to sell you something
Some of the big name servos here in Australia have them too, namely Caltex servos.